Ah Meng didn't know what the so-called "report" was, but it didn't prevent her from writing a letter to the princess.

"Princess Niangniang, everything is fine in the mine, everyone can eat enough, every day is to pick up the stones on the ground and carry them to the car, and then take turns to transport them back to ......"

After writing a few lines briefly, Ah Meng stopped a thousand words, and felt a little unconfident and stopped writing.

She wanted to say that she was afraid that she would not be able to do the work of the overseer, and that she was afraid that she would not be able to live up to the trust of the princess, but she still did not put these emotions into the letter.

"I can do a good job, I can't make trouble for my mother!" After cheering himself up, Ah Meng handed the letter to Wang Ergou.

After Wang Ergou put away the letter, he divided the hundred people he brought into two waves, one wave pulled up all the small carts full of limestone, and one wave stood behind each cart and began to push the carts.

After returning to the county seat, Wang Ergou was surprised to find that during the time they left, the cement road had been paved with the small county seat, and now it was about to stretch outside, according to this momentum, it is estimated that it will be paved to the foot of the mountain where the limestone mine is located in a few days.

- If you follow the speed of cultivating the official road in previous years, this point will not be repaired in a month or two, and after the repair, it will be so rotten that you can't walk in the next rain, and it will be full of pits.

And now, once the cement road is solidified, there is no depression for anyone to walk on, and it is very smooth, even if you walk on the cement road on a rainy day, there will be no mud flooding, let alone mud puddles.

"It's amazing!" With such admiration, Wang Ergou walked into the Rui Wangfu and went to communicate with the princess.

At this time, Pei Qing was discussing with Li Yi about buying cattle and horses.

Cattle and horses are all controlled by the imperial court, and it is good to buy one or two, but if you buy them in large quantities, it will inevitably alarm the imperial court.

And the feudal town now has a pending issue of "withdrawing the feudal domain", so Pei Qing means that if you can quietly buy cattle and horses, it would be good not to alarm the imperial court.

"With cattle and horses, it's much easier to pull goods back and forth from various mines, and it can also save a lot of manpower," she said, writing and drawing on paper, "and besides, having these big animals in the busy farm can greatly improve production efficiency." ”

It's not that I don't want to use modern agricultural machinery, but the system function has not yet been restored to that level, and I can only rely on ancient productivity for the time being.

However, even if it is only by animal power, Pei Qing's concept of the lord of the domain town has far surpassed all the lord of the domain town in the entire Dayan Dynasty, and looking at the entire Dayan Dynasty, there is no prince in any domain town who is willing to invest animal power to reduce manpower for his own people.

They wished they had all their people tied to the land and could not move.

Only Pei Qing, the princess of Rui Wangfu, is the only one who not only has to farm but also develop various industries and create unique feudal town commodities, and will never be limited by the agricultural society, so she will cherish all human resources and refuse to waste them easily.

Pei Qing groaned and turned to Li Yi: "I remember that you said before that the Huang family's caravan had dealings with Biansai?" ”

Li Yi bowed slightly: "They happen to be in the cattle and horse business." ”

"I want a hundred cows," Pei Qing immediately clapped, "You go talk to them." ”

Li Yi glanced at her and reminded slowly: "Cattle are not cheap. ”

Pei Qing looked at him vigilantly: "How cheap is it?" ”

"A cow is 15,000 to 20,000 wen." Li Yi replied.

Pei Qing pinched his fingers and counted: "A cow costs fifteen taels of silver to twenty taels of silver?" ”

That's a bit expensive.

She took a breath and turned to ask, "What about it......?" What about a strong laborer? ”

This is a knowingly question, but she wants to clear her mind through dialogue, so she asks.

"It only takes one or two dollars to buy a strong laborer, and the money is always a thousand yuan, and the price of buying a cow is equal to buying fifteen people." Li Yi took the trouble to answer her almost common sense question seriously.

Pei Qing is really frowning now.

"What, changed your mind?" Li Yi chuckled, taking in every vivid change on her face.

Pei Qing took a breath, and still said, "Buy!" ”

If you don't buy it, you can't buy it, although the cow is expensive, but the cow can't learn and use tools.

In the people-oriented former county, people are above all else, and if you want to build this feudal town, you can't limit people to heavy manual labor.

"Buy a hundred?" Li Yi asked with a chuckle, softening her eyebrows as she puffed out her cheeks.

"Buy a hundred!" Pei Qing's flesh hurt, and he gritted his teeth when he spoke, "Sooner or later, one day, I want Xixian County to realize the freedom of cattle and horses!" ”

Li Yi smiled.

*

After Pei Qing read the letter written by Ah Meng, he decisively recruited 20 middle-aged and elderly women in the county, and let these aunts and aunts go to the mine to cook, wash, and do chores, so as to further liberate the productivity of the mine.

After arranging these things, she went to the soap workshop under construction with a secret anticipation.

The soap workshop used the idle courtyard of the palace, the yard was very large, and the house was very bright, and when she entered, the courtyard was full of lime and plant ash, and there were people boiling lard.

According to the operation process he gave, Aji was directing people to mix the plant ash and hydrated lime together, and although they were quite careful, the fine plant ash still flew up from time to time.

So when Pei Qing came in, he saw black faces.

"This can't be done, if you continue like this, you will get pneumoconiosis." Pei Qing turned around and walked out again.

After going out, she asked Ah Xing to go to the county to recruit 50 women who could tailor, and she picked up a pen and drew a short picture on paper.

She drew masks.

50 people are not small, 50 women made masks together according to the drawings, and it took less than half an hour to make a lot of them.

After doing it, Pei Qing happily gave 10 yuan per person, and then took these masks to the soap workshop.

After Ah Ji and her workers wiped their faces clean, they carefully put the cloth on their faces according to the method provided by the princess, and when they inhaled again, they felt that there was much less smoke and dust in their mouths and noses.

"This thing is good, this thing is good," Ah Ji praised the mask, "It's still the princess's thoughtfulness!" ”

How else is she a princess, but she can only be a slave?

After mixing the lime and plant ash in proportion, the remaining liquid is filtered and poured into the hot lard, and the workers start stirring according to the operating manual.

Lard is still relatively expensive in this era, after all, there are no high-yield oil crops, poor families do not eat oil at all, and the average well-off family only eats one or two jars of lard a year, and only the rich and noble families can use oil.

The lard they got this time was boiled out after the county's pig fat, and after this meal was all done, the raw materials for the next meal were gone.

"So you have to exchange the seeds of high-yield oil crops...... Pei Qing muttered to himself while inspecting the work, secretly noting this in his heart.

The mixed and heated soap is in liquid form, and this is when the mold made by the carpenter's workshop is used.

According to Pei Qing's requirements, there are three kinds of molds produced by the carpenter's workshop, one is square, engraved with the four gentlemen's flowers of Meilan, bamboo and chrysanthemum, and specially for men.

One is carved with legendary beauty patterns such as Xi Shi holding her heart and Chang'e running to the moon, which is specially used by women.

Another is carved into a round and chubby animal pattern for children.

The liquid soap is carefully scooped out by the workers, put it in various molds, and then carefully placed on wooden shelves to wait for it to cool, during which everyone does it very carefully.

You only need to wait quietly for two days, and the soap can be sold as a product after it is demolded.

Aji has been a little nervous after the princess came, because the princess said too little.

"Niangniang, what do you think of what we are doing?" When everything was put on the shelf and everyone had no work to do, she asked Pei Qing cautiously.

Pei Qing asked rhetorically: "What do you think of yourself?" ”

Ajt's speech was overwhelmed.

She looked at the mess in the yard, and then at the dark environment, and at the scattered ashes of plants and trees, and scratched her ears a little embarrassed.

"Let's do it in production safety and environmental sanitation," Pei Qing didn't say anything serious, and his tone was very gentle, "It's okay if you are not familiar with it the first time, from the next time you should pay attention to the safety and health of the environment, if the people who work have related occupational diseases because of this work, you will be held responsible." ”

Ah Ji was thrilled when he heard this, and hurriedly nodded again and again, not knowing where to put his hand, and his body was as tense as a pillar.

Looking at her appearance, Pei Qing showed a shallow smile, and her tone turned excited: "But I didn't expect you to succeed in the first attempt, and there were no mistakes at all, which is too rare, Ah Ji, you are a genius!" ”

After hearing this, Ah Ji, who was originally panicked, only felt that a ray of sunlight on his head hit his heart, and his whole person lit up.

She wanted to jump with joy, and after she finally held back, she couldn't help but show a silly smile on her face.

She, a slave, was actually praised as a "genius" by the noble princess!

Niangniang didn't dislike her for being sloppy, and praised her!

She knew the word "genius", and as she had said in her language class, genius meant the best of all the great people.

She must have done a better job than the other 5 female guards, and she must be the one that the princess admires the most!

Ah Ji was almost crazy, and as soon as the princess left, she immediately took the lead in cleaning the courtyard regardless of her exhaustion, vowing to clean the yard and create a safe and hygienic environment that absolutely meets the requirements of the princess!

*

Li Yi watched coldly all the way how Pei Qing manipulated people's hearts, and he only felt breathtaking.

Compared with those noblewomen in the capital who are sweet and bitter, so that the people are unconvinced, Pei Qing speaks like a spring breeze, but the effect achieved can split Huashan.

No beating, no scolding, no punishment, it's easy for people to give her a desperate job - the kind that has to complete the order at all costs.

Pei Qing didn't realize the mixed tastes in his heart, she took him to see the cement workshop and the soap workshop, and went back to the garden building directly.

"Well, the cement looks good, right?" There were no outsiders, she sat opposite him very casually, and she asked very kindly.

Li Yi nodded slowly: "It's very good, it's really an immortal method." ”

Pei Qing smiled and bent his eyes.

"Cement is not for sale for the time being." She told Li Yi, "However, if this Huang Gongzi is particularly reliable, the formula of cement is not untradeable." ”

Li Yi's deep eyes reflected a little light from the window, which looked particularly charming, especially when he was looking at her intently.

I only listened to Pei Qing ask word by word: "So, can you give me a solid answer, how reliable is this Huang Gongzi?" ”

Li Yi's eyes were shining, and he said indifferently: "Very reliable." ”

"Are you sure?" Pei Qing looked at his eyes intently.

Li Yi nodded soothingly: "Sure." ”

Seeing that she didn't look away, he solemnly added: "He has a lifelong friendship with the prince, well, by the way, the prince has a handle in his hand, and I will send it to the princess when I turn around." ”

The last two sentences were in Pei Qing's arms, and she nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, yes, let's be a villain first and then a gentleman, the handle is good, and the handle is much better than friendship." ”

Li Yi's eyes widened slightly, he really didn't expect that Pei Qing, who had always had bright means, would also care about the tricks.

"It's not like you anymore, Princess." He half-truthfully said, "Aren't you the most fond of friendship?" ”

Pei Qing smiled softly and slyly: "Friendship is too expensive, the handle is more affordable, and sometimes I am very cost-effective." ”

Immediately, she explained to him what "cost-effective" was.

Hearing this, Li Yi couldn't help but laugh.

"What are you laughing at?" Pei Qing glared at him.

Li Yi chuckled for a moment before replying unhurriedly: "I'm afraid of someone Huang who hasn't met you yet." ”

Pei Qing glared at him again, and then laughed as well.

After a few idle words, she handed over a letter she had written to Li Yi: "Bring this letter to the Huang family caravan for me, and let them send it to Huang Gongzi, there is a new soap in the town, similar to bath beans but better than bath beans, the starting price is five taels of silver, send two samples to Huang Gongzi, and ask him if he wants to do soap business - if he doesn't do it, I will have to bid for it." ”

Then, she explained to Li Yi what "bidding" was.

Li Yi was silent for a moment before he said: "There are carrier pigeons stationed in the Huang family's caravan to contact Huang Gongzi, and they can go back and forth in three days at most, and I will go and deliver the letter for you now." ”

This is important news, Pei Qing raised his eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked.

"Guard Li, it seems that you are hiding a lot of things from me." She complained half-truthfully.

Li Yi, who was getting up, straightened up and looked at her for a moment, until he was sure that she was just talking casually, and then turned around and walked out.

God knows how hard his heart beat when he heard her say that.

But......

The biggest secret of his body, she didn't seem to have discovered.